Hi David,
Happy New Year!...hope you had a great Christmas.
I have been puzzling over a data ‘cleaning’ issue and wondered if you might be able to suggest a solution. In summary, some of my feeds supply age information in the format:
3-4 years,5-6 years,9-10 years,4-5 years,11-12 years,7-8 years
I would like to convert the data into individual values, so for example 3-4 years would become 3 years, 4 years.
I realise I could do this with a whole bunch of search and replace filters, one for each variation but I wondered if you might be able to suggest a neater and more efficient way of doing this change?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Chris
Hi David,
Thanks for the quick response. I tried the above but noticed the filter only seems to pick up the first instance.
For example in a field containing:
3-4 years,5-6 years,9-10 years,4-5 years,11-12 years,7-8 years
only the 3-4 years is converted.
I wondered if you might be able to suggest a way to force the filter to check the entire field for matches before moving on to the next?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Chris
Hi Chris,
Have a go with the following for multiple ranges, with duplicate prevention (e.g. 7-8 years, 8-9 years) would return "7 years,8 years,9 years"...
/*************************************************/
/* ageRange */
/*************************************************/
$filter_names["ageRange"] = "Age Range";
function filter_ageRangeConfigure($filter_data)
{
print "<p>There are no additional configuration parameters for this filter.</p>";
}
function filter_ageRangeValidate($filter_data)
{
}
function filter_ageRangeExec($filter_data,$text)
{
$years = array();
$parts = explode(",",$text);
foreach($parts as $part)
{
preg_match("/([0-9]+)\-([0-9]+) years/i",$part,$matches);
if (count($matches)==3)
{
for($i=$matches[1];$i<=$matches[2];$i++)
{
$year = $i." years";
$years[$year] = $year;
}
}
}
if (count($years))
{
return implode(",",$years);
}
else
{
return $text;
}
}Cheers,
David.
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Hi David,
Thanks for your help above, the second version works perfectly.
Best regards
Chris
Hi Chris,
HNY also! Have a go with the following "Age Range" filter, which will separate out the ages or return unchanged if the regexp does not match...
/*************************************************//* ageRange */
/*************************************************/
$filter_names["ageRange"] = "Age Range";
function filter_ageRangeConfigure($filter_data)
{
print "<p>There are no additional configuration parameters for this filter.</p>";
}
function filter_ageRangeValidate($filter_data)
{
}
function filter_ageRangeExec($filter_data,$text)
{
preg_match("/([0-9]+)\-([0-9]+) years/i",$text,$matches);
if (count($matches)==3)
{
$years = array();
for($i=$matches[1];$i<=$matches[2];$i++)
{
$years[] = $i." years";
}
return implode(",",$years);
}
else
{
return $text;
}
}
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.
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